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Finance Minister KN Balagopal said the allocation was to prevent the steep rise in prices of essential commodities during Onam.
Children or legal heirs subjecting a senior citizen to cruelty or shifting the latter to a rescue home without consent could be sentenced to jail for up to 3 years.
CPM will now undertake further discussions on the matter within its Politburo, with a review expected post-Lok Sabha elections.
The government plans to place the Bill before the Assembly in its next session.
In the Kerala Budget presented yesterday, Finance Minister K N Balagopal announced that foreign and private universities will be welcomed to set up campuses in the state.
Government had sold the story of Centre fiscally strangulating the state so well that it was a budget with very low expectations despite being a pre election one.
Two of them – Civil Supplies Minister G R Anil and Animal Husbandry Minister J Chinchurani – have openly expressed their displeasure, even if not in strong and bitter terms.
The minister had expressed his displeasure over the inadequate allocation for the department in the budget.
Resource mobilisation efforts were modest. The common man may not have anything to complain.
Balagopal estimated a 12.6% growth in state’s own tax revenues in 2023-24. What he got was just a 7% increase.
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